Kickstarter hacked. Change your password

On Saturday afternoon, Kickstarter announced that it had become aware of a security breach
resulting in the loss of personal customer data like "usernames,
email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted
passwords." The crowdfunding site e-mailed its users later that
night, urging them to change their passwords.

Kickstarter admitted it was made aware of the hack by law enforcement officials on
Wednesday, upon which the company "immediately closed the security
breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the
Kickstarter system." According to the company's blog post, no
credit card information was stolen, and only two instances of
unauthorised access to accounts were discovered.

According to the site, over 5.6 million people have
pledged money to projects via Kickstarter since 2009, when
the site launched.

"We're incredibly sorry that this happened," Kickstarter wrote.
"We set a very high bar for how we serve our community, and this
incident is frustrating and upsetting. We have since improved our
security procedures and systems in numerous ways, and we will
continue to do so in the weeks and months to come. We are working
closely with law enforcement, and we are doing everything in our
power to prevent this from happening again."